The country has been plunged into a complex legal battle over the abortion pill. His access was finally temporarily maintained by the Supreme Court on Friday but remains, in the long term, threatened.
"When does it stop?" lamented Carol Bouchard on Saturday, in front of the white marble building that houses the American temple of law.
Placard in hand, the 61-year-old former lawyer said she was "very angry" to see access to this stamp threatened nearly a year after the Supreme Court annulled the constitutional protection to be aborted in the country. This decision had led to the prohibition of abortion in fifteen states.
On this sunny afternoon, Brittany House, a Washington resident, takes the podium and talks about the abortion she had in 2012, when she was fresh out of college.
"Abortion made me free," says the young woman, ensuring that at 21, she "would not have been able to take care of this child".
In front of the Supreme Court also march many septuagenarians, outraged to see the restrictions follow one another in the country, fifty years after fighting for the right to abortion.
Abortion "saved my life," says Barbara Kraft, who had an abortion in the late 70s after serious complications during her pregnancy.
"I really believe that women should have the right to make that decision for themselves."
Illustrating the tensions in American society, the rally was briefly interrupted by a small group of anti-abortion protesters proclaiming, through a megaphone, that "abortions are murder."
Pro-abortion protests were also held in Los Angeles and New York.
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